Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three successive nights beginning Monday, November 30, the Cambridge School of the Drama will present "The Other One," by Dorothy Abbott, a student in the School. Miss Abbott, author of "For Someone Else," which was given last spring, presents in her new play, a study of a dual personality...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator and one time (1901-23) director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped to live 100 years...
Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
University officials do not like to talk of their affairs until things have actually happened. Even then, Harvard's elderly President Abbott Lawrence Lowell often refuses to talk directly to the Press. Boston and Cambridge were wondering last week what would be the result of an article in the Boston Globe which purported to reveal the name of the next dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences-next most important position to that of the president of the University. This week the Harvard Board of Overseers meets to elect a successor to the late Clifford Herschel Moore, who died...
...house-warming dinner at Adams House last night, attended by a group of 50, marked the official opening of a third House Plan unit. The party, including President Lowell, Professor J. P. Baxter, 3rd, Master of the House; Messrs. Shepley and Abbott of the arm of University architects; ten Associates of the House, and 18 tutors, with their wives, dined in the main hall at a large table formed by placing several ones together...